[1] COCTURAM HAM SIMPLY COOKED IN WATER WITH FIGS IS USUALLY DRESSED ON A PLATTER [baking pan] SPRINKLED WITH CRUMBS AND REDUCED WINE, OR, STILL BETTER, WITH SPICED WINE
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

"—Who C. is cannot be said; possibly Lamb, as a joke, intends Coleridge to be indicated; but poor S. would be John Scott, the first editor of the London Magazine , who was killed in a duel.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

wearisomeness, tediousness &c. adj.; dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale. bore, buttonholer, proser[obs3], wet blanket; pill*, stiff*; heavy hours, "the enemy" [time].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

By Phillyra, Saturn was the father of the Centaur Chiron.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

We were disposed to send off a messenger this very evening, but Phares said it would not be necessary.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Cheerful objects rather added to, than removed this depression; but, perhaps, she yielded too much to her melancholy inclination, and imprudently lamented the misfortune, which no virtue of her own could have taught her to avoid, though no effort of reason could make her look unmoved upon the self-degradation of him, whom she had once esteemed and loved.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

And now had Jove, by bold rebellion driven, Discharged his wrath on half the host of heaven; But Pallas, springing through the bright abode, Starts from her azure throne to calm the god.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The antique rolles, which there lye hidden still, Of Faerie knights ° and fairest Tanaquill, ° 15 Whom that most noble Briton Prince ° so long Sought through the world, and suffered so much ill, That I must rue his undeserved wrong: O helpe thou my weake wit, and sharpen my dull tong.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Clerk Maxwell somewhere says it would be "poor scientific taste" to choose the more complicated of two equally well-evidenced conceptions; and you will all agree with him.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

I don’t mind telling that, because people should buy of regular people.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

Beyond the fringe of brush there was an open space, but as we reached this, both paused, stricken dumb by horror at the sight which met our view.
— from Beyond the Frontier: A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish

The British 'pound' sign has been written as 'L'.
— from Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro

You have now given Helen Merival the best part she has ever had.
— from The Light of the Star: A Novel by Hamlin Garland

He said the Prince had been with him just before, and amongst other things had urged him to continue to him and to the Queen his advice and assistance, especially on measures affecting their private concerns and family concerns; he told Lord Melbourne it was on these points that he felt Lord Melbourne's advice had been peculiarly sound, and there was no reason why this should not be continued, and any communication might be made through me.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria